Self Introduction + Sponsor Needed

[Dario Faggioli]

Hi everyone,

I have just submitted a package review request for xen-tools
(http://www.xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/) here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980851

From the same website, you can easily reach other Xen related tools,
like xen-shell, and also rinse, which I plan to be packaging too. See
here a (old) blog post of mine about how to use xen-tools on Fedora as
of now (i.e., without it being packaged):
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/01/24/using-xen-tools-on-fedora/

This is my first submission so I'm sending this e-mail for both
introducing myself and looking for a sponsor. :-)

So, I'm Dario (dariof on FAS), I work for Citrix on the Xen Hypervisor
in the 'Open Source Team' (yeah, 100% only OSS stuff, kind of
cool! :-P). I've been there for about one year and a half now, and I'm
working on improving Xen NUMA support.

For that same purpose, I just started recently to contribute to libvirt,
implementing some of the missing bits of the NUMA interface for the
libvirt libxl driver (one of the Xen libvirt backends).

As I use Fedora for both work and leisure, I'm also the one that
maintains Fedora related information on our Wiki (see
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Category:Fedora) and I try to keep an eye on
how, in general, Xen works on Fedora (together with Konrad from Oracle).

In the Xen dev and user community, we use xen-tools a lot (for instance,
it is part of our automated testing infrastructure). That's basically
why I'd like Fedora to ship it natively (and I'm of course stepping up
for maintainership): I really believe this could improve both Xen users
and developers experience, help both testing and real workloads and, in
general, bring the two communities closer.

Some more stuff, I live in central Italy (I work from home), I did my
Ph.D on Real-Time Systems in Pisa --during which I did Linux kernel
stuff, http://lwn.net/Articles/412745/). I've been on Linux since
beginning of the university, back in 2000, and on Fedora since F15
(yeah, that is not so long ago... sorry! :-P).
I _love_ Fedora because it gives me bleeding edge software, but still in
a comfortable and stable environment... I was on Debian before, with
experimental repos enabled, and a broken X server (among other things)
at least once a week! :-D

I've got a wife, Luana, an almost 3 years old daughter, Lara, and three
cats: Byte, Mega and Slash.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks and Regards,
Dario

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<<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
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Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)